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@TwinkTheory Hasn't Sweeney taken on a number of smaller films? Reality (2023), Christy (2025) come to mind. She has made an effort to branch out from "hot blond with an expiration date."

Sydney Sweeney knows her cultural cache is limited. The pendulum always swings, she will age, and the blonde bimbo who flirts with Republican politics will go out of fashion. She’s understandably on a money grab because she knows all of this, so she will produce what’s essentially slop to pull in as much money as she can. Right now her net worth is higher than Zendaya’s. Zendaya on the other hand has a different trajectory. She wants an academy award, she wants cemented A list status, effectively she’s one of the only real “movie stars” in her age cohort. This year alone she has euphoria (which she’s an executive producer of), Dune 3 (massive box office appeal, the Star Wars of the 2020’s), Spider-Man (another legacy brand), and The Odyssey which basically every A lister managed to get a chunk of. She’s a brand ambassador for several major fashion labels and is a fashion week/met gala fixture. You can’t really compare them based on this one off. Zendaya could take on a smaller film like The Drama because of her franchise money, which won’t just pay her once but will keep paying her in perpetuity. Robert Pattinson is in this boat too because of twilight when he was a kid. Sydney Sweeney will be a very rich woman but she’s destined to ultimately hawk a make up/perfume brand or something like that and possibly fade from acting altogether. Zendaya is also loaded but is playing the long game, so she’s selecting projects on building a prestige reputation and not just quick pay checks. None of this is judgmental of them, they’re both doing what any smart person would do with their distinct brands.

@moneyman059 @Slatzism @MOSSADil So close, so close ...

@globosummed @Slatzism @MOSSADil Imagine if Mexico has bombed youre town where you live for decades and killed many family ans friends you proabably wouldn't be too fond of Mexico either eventually you'd probably take up arms and fight

🚨 FOUND IN A LEBANESE HOME: MEIN KAMPF — IN ARABIC IDF troops discovered a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Arabic inside a home in Lebanon. ‼️For anyone still asking why Israel is operating there, this your answer.

@moneyman059 @Slatzism @MOSSADil A new day, another depressing encounter with how the average person parses reality.

@globosummed @Slatzism @MOSSADil Gee I wonder if it has anything to w them genociding (if thats a word) Lebanese and Palestinians for decades

@Slatzism @MOSSADil Come on, this can't be your take. Israel is constantly portrayed as a belligerent, unprovoked aggressor, while the fact that they are surrounded by people who hate their existence is ignored.

@MOSSADil “hoooooly shit you guys you wouldn’t believe what we found while pillaging the house of the family we just killed”

@cunnyPower1488 @kikisknees If u win, there will be a generation coming up behind u who will have adopted the intergenerational-hate attitude you've fomented, only they'll be turning it on you. And u'll try to defend urself only to be met w/cold dismissal, from ppl too young to grasp the context u came from

@kikisknees @globosummed When we win, the mass communications of the internet have laid the groundwork to prevent it all from repeating because we'll know what they're up to next time.

I'm very happy to say that The Boomer is not eternal, despite the intense damage they've done to our world. They will die. Soon, probably. Hopefully.

@BenjaminABoyce I don't understand when he says he had to give everything up. Like, he felt social pressure from neighbors? Work? Did he have a job that he lost? Hoe_math always struck me as a high neuroticism, high negative emotion guy, and his online work just reinforces a damaging loop.

hoemath, on joy

@kikisknees Most people, in any era, have little power to affect macro change.They just do their best to survive in a system they're told is normal.Fomenting intergenerational hatred expressed on an individual level is a real-bad-thing,no matter how true it is that their leadership fucked up

@globosummed It IS their fault.

@shagbark_hick Isn't acceptable provisioning of a family all relative to what a normal man could provide if he worked a decent, or even a low wage job? These days, one doesn't have to be a striver to be able to heat a house above 45f, or feed his kids more than rice and beans.

Is it a sin for a man to voluntarily have no job or ambition -- so long as he manages to provide his family with food, shelter, water, and the basics of life? I.e, if a man won't get a job but scraps enough together to give his family an 800 sq ft house, rice and beans, thermostat on 45f, pot showers, cheap fruit and meat 3x week, mattresses and blankets, new shoes and pants once a year, bicycles for transportation -- and has no desire to obtain a higher standard of living -- is the man a failure? Is he sinning? Should he be reproached? If so, on what grounds? And does his wife's contendedness matter in the equation at all? If he is sinning or somehow wrong -- was the man who contentedly provided his family with exactly the bill of goods described above in 1915 also sinning? If he wasn't, why not? Or, said differently: is it a sin to not be a "striver?"

@daatdarling The supply of men who "want to" falls far below demand.

If he wanted to, he would ladies. Don’t let your man get away with being a low effort low value man! Make sure he puts in this level of work to keep you in your divine feminine soft life energy!

@JoshRainerGold I think she's Russian

a conflict where there is no solution…

@callanable Throw away your cell phone and your laptop.

this is me, unfortunately how do I enjoy reading again?

@cimmerian_v She has Cushing's disease.

She still has Fat Face

@callanable I need his @

I kinda want to go for this what do you guys think?

@celestialbe1ng ... Is her aura impossibly pure or is she just incredibly charismatic, bending towards narcissistic, and people eat it up? I think she's very self righteous, and wants to be a good person, and is charismatic enough that she shines to ppl. But doesn't mean she's pure.

I have a strong feeling that, sooner or later, Candace Owens is going to be owed a massive public apology.

@BreatheLesss But ... why?

Nothing bad happened.

@Anarseldain His baby is freaking adorable and I don't know why anyone would insult a child even if it weren't.

Shagbark Hickman’s Malnourished Homunculus Child Just Looks Like That Because of White People Theory.

@PaulSkallas Eh. No one sees Melania and questions the influence she will have on Trump's foreign and domestic policy. No one cares. "Eastern Euro Model" doesn't hit the same buttons as "Hindu Indian child of immigrants" does in our timeline.

Trump is old school with his marriage. He doesn't even wear a wedding ring, which men didn't all wear until recently. He rarely speaks in depth about his marriage, when he does, it’s solely to emphasize Melania's beauty or style. Or to tell some boomer joke about marriage. What Vance is doing here is too personal. This is none of the public's business. Certain things need to stay behind doors.

@teachrobotslove Idk if this is the right sphere for this, but I was always surprised that Lauren Southern did not capitalize more on her internet audience. Read her memoir & she was just scraping by, attaching herself to loser media companies, not pushing her brand hard. Compare to say Candace.

It's harder to sell out than you'd imagine. People think it's easy, but there's a skill to being a total shill that the ordinary person simply does not possess.